Army To Invade Sonora.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 7, 1913:
Veteran General Leads 10,000—20,000 More to Fight Carranza.
    MEXICO CITY, March 6.— Ten thousand seasoned troops are to be placed under the command of Brig. Gen. Samuel Garcia Cuellar, the former chief of President Porfirio Diaz's staff and hero of the battle of Casas Grandes early in the Madero revolution, who has been ordered to move against the rebels in the north at an early date. Two thousand men in addition to those already dispatched are preparing to proceed to Coahuila to give combat to the rebels under Venustiano Carranza, the rebel Governor. According to the latest information reaching the Government. Carranza now has 3,000 men and six cannon. His forces are spread over a large area from Lampazos throughout the eastern half of Coahuila.
    A detachment of Gov. Carranza's forces has taken possession of La Babia ranch, the property of Gen. Trevino, new Governor of the State of Nuevo Leon. The Government is moving troops into Monclova and Mesquite, where the main body of the Carranzistas is said to be, and daily is expecting engagements to be reported from those points.
    Three hundred followers of Gov. Carranza last night occupied Lampazos, a city of 8,000 inhabitants in the northern part of the State of Nuevo Leon. Twenty rurales defending the city joined the rebels. Lampazos is on the Mexican National Railroad seventy miles southwest of Laredo, Texas.
    A force of rebels commanded by Alberto Guajardo, a commander of Rural Guards, who revolted against the Huerta administration in the State of Coahuila, was routed with heavy loss by Federal troops yesterday near Parras, in that State. The battle occurred when the rebels attacked a repair train which was proceeding from Torreon to Saltillo, the State capital, under the escort of a strong body of troops belonging to the army of Gen. Trucy Aubert. The Federal troops detrained. They repulsed the rebels after a very sharp fight.

    WASHINGTON, March 6.— Col. Carranza, who is reported to be attempting to extort money from the foreigners at Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, has seized the Mexican Custom House and is selling at less than half its value merchandise consigned to the interior of Mexico.